Japan’s Political Marketplace: With a New PrefaceMark Ramseyer and Frances McCall Rosenbluth show how rational-choice theory can be applied to Japanese politics. Using the concept of principal and agent, Ramseyer and Rosenbluth construct a persuasive account of political relationships in Japan. In doing so, they demonstrate that political considerations and institutional arrangements reign in what, to most of the world, looks like an independently powerful bureaucratic state. |
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... held admin- istrative posts . Only two others were ordinary judges in branch offices . By April 1987 , when Hanada resigned , of the remaining 43 class members six were chief judges , 12 were High Court judges , 13 were district court ...
... held admin- istrative posts . Only two others were ordinary judges in branch offices . By April 1987 , when Hanada resigned , of the remaining 43 class members six were chief judges , 12 were High Court judges , 13 were district court ...
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... held the canvassing ban flatly unconstitutional22 - the very ban the Supreme Court had upheld against the same challenge a few months earlier . When his initial 10 - year term expired in 1972 , observers rumored that the Court would not ...
... held the canvassing ban flatly unconstitutional22 - the very ban the Supreme Court had upheld against the same challenge a few months earlier . When his initial 10 - year term expired in 1972 , observers rumored that the Court would not ...
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... held for the first plaintiffs under its own understanding of the law . In view of the new Supreme Court precedent , it held otherwise in the second case . Yet the circumstances may be more complex . As several com- mentators noted at ...
... held for the first plaintiffs under its own understanding of the law . In view of the new Supreme Court precedent , it held otherwise in the second case . Yet the circumstances may be more complex . As several com- mentators noted at ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Electoral Rules and Party Strategy | 16 |
Demographics and Policy | 38 |
Copyright | |
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